英语词汇“to trust as far as one can throw him”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

P3. (not) to trust (a person) as far as one can throw him (also her) (and variants): to trust (a person) very little or not at all. Cf. far adv. 6c.

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1830 W. Carleton Traits & Stories Irish Peasantry II. 132 ‘I'd jist thrust him,’ replied Traynor, ‘as far as I could throw a cow by the tail.’

1850 Househ. Words 25 May 215/1 Take care of that fellow, Hewson. If I were in your place, I'd just trust him as far as I could throw him, and not an inch beyond.

1861 Rep. Select Comm. Native Police Force (Legislative Assembly of Queensland) 58 I would not trust them as far as I could throw a bullock by the tail.

1895 Eighth Ann. Rep. Board Mediation & Arbitration, N.Y. 307 The gentlemen..will have to admit that they have members in their organization..whom they, themselves, would not trust as far as they could throw them.

1934 L. T. White in O. Penzler Black Lizard Big Bk. of Pulps (2007) 791/2 He could trust neither Gus Nuene nor Sam Skuro as far as he could throw them with a broken wrist.

1941 N.Y. Amsterdam Star-News 4 Oct. 15/1 They're all alike and can be trusted only as far as you can throw a feather.

1960 G. W. Target Teachers (1962) 29 A tyke you couldn't trust as far as you could throw him.

1998 W. Lamb I know this Much is True (1999) xxiv. 400 I forgave him for who he was: a buffoon, a bigmouth, a guy who couldn't be trusted any further than you could throw him.

2013 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 23 Dec. (Sport section) 12 The relationship between this unproven, unfamiliar, secretive board of directors and thousands of supporters who wouldn't trust them as far as they could throw them.

单词	to trust as far as one can throw him
释义	> as lemmas (not) to trust (a person) as far as one can throw him (also her) P3. (not) to trust (a person) as far as one can throw him (also her) (and variants): to trust (a person) very little or not at all. Cf. far adv. 6c. ΚΠ 1830 W. Carleton Traits & Stories Irish Peasantry II. 132 ‘I'd jist thrust him,’ replied Traynor, ‘as far as I could throw a cow by the tail.’ 1850 Househ. Words 25 May 215/1 Take care of that fellow, Hewson. If I were in your place, I'd just trust him as far as I could throw him, and not an inch beyond. 1861 Rep. Select Comm. Native Police Force (Legislative Assembly of Queensland) 58 I would not trust them as far as I could throw a bullock by the tail. 1895 Eighth Ann. Rep. Board Mediation & Arbitration, N.Y. 307 The gentlemen..will have to admit that they have members in their organization..whom they, themselves, would not trust as far as they could throw them. 1934 L. T. White in O. Penzler Black Lizard Big Bk. of Pulps (2007) 791/2 He could trust neither Gus Nuene nor Sam Skuro as far as he could throw them with a broken wrist. 1941 N.Y. Amsterdam Star-News 4 Oct. 15/1 They're all alike and can be trusted only as far as you can throw a feather. 1960 G. W. Target Teachers (1962) 29 A tyke you couldn't trust as far as you could throw him. 1998 W. Lamb I know this Much is True (1999) xxiv. 400 I forgave him for who he was: a buffoon, a bigmouth, a guy who couldn't be trusted any further than you could throw him. 2013 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 23 Dec. (Sport section) 12 The relationship between this unproven, unfamiliar, secretive board of directors and thousands of supporters who wouldn't trust them as far as they could throw them. extracted from trustv. < as lemmas
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